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Definition chime

Etymology 1

From Middle English chime, chim, chimbe, chymbe, a shortening of chimbelle (misinterpreted as chymme-belle, chimbe-belle), from Old English ?imbala, ?imbal (“cymbal”), from Latin cymbalum.

Noun

chime (plural chimes)

  1. (music) A musical instrument producing a sound when struck, similar to a bell (e.g. a tubular metal bar) or actually a bell. Often used in the plural to refer to the set: the chimes.
  2. An individual ringing component of such a set.
  3. A small bell or other ringing or tone-making device as a component of some other device.
  4. The sound of such an instrument or device.
  5. A small hammer or other device used to strike a bell.
Verb

chime (third-person singular simple present chimes, present participle chiming, simple past and past participle chimed)

  1. (intransitive) To make the sound of a chime.
  2. (transitive) To cause to sound in harmony; to play a tune, as upon a set of bells; to move or strike in harmony.
  3. (transitive) To utter harmoniously; to recite rhythmically.
  4. (intransitive) To agree; to correspond.
  5. To make a rude correspondence of sounds; to jingle, as in rhyming.

Etymology 2

Noun

chime (plural chimes)

  1. Alternative form of chine (“edge of a cask; part of a ship; etc.”)

Results 338 Words with the letters CHIME

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CHEMIC 17
CHIMED 15
CHIMER 14
CHIMES 14
HAEMIC 14
MICHED 15
MICHES 14
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CHIME 13
HEMIC 13
MICHE 13
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EMIC 10
HEMI 9
MICE 10
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CHI 8
HEM 8
HIC 8
HIE 5
HIM 8
ICE 6
ICH 8
MIC 9
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EM 5
HE 4
HI 4
HM 7
ME 5
MI 5

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